SNAP, a multinational celeb TV show and magazine, is the holy grail for Maxie Gwenoch. When she snags the job as managing editor, she’s looking for fame, fortune and Jimmy Choos. What she finds is a media empire owned by Baron Kandesky and his family. A family of vampires. They’re European, urbane, wealthy and mesmerizing. And when she meets Jean-Louis, vampire and co-worker, she’s a goner.

The Kandesky vampire family rose in Hungary centuries ago. They gave up violence and killing to make a killing on the world’s commodities markets and with that beginning they built SNAP, an international celebrity multimedia empire. Now cultured…and having found food substitutes for killing…they’ve cornered the world market for celebrity and gossip journalism.

They haven’t fully left the past behind. Their Hungarian neighbors and rival vampire clan, the Huszars are starting to ramp up attacks, maybe looking to start a war to take over all the Kandeskys have built.

Maxie believes she’s found her ultimate career. She doesn’t realize that she’s found a family feud like none other, a centuries-old rivalry between vampire families, with her as the linchpin. Bells ring with Jean-Louis, but she doesn’t realize they’re alarm sirens until she learns that Jean-Louis is second in command of the Kandeskys…but by then it’s too late.

Author Bio:
Michele Drier was born in Santa Cruz and is a fifth generation Californian. She’s lived and worked all over the state, calling both Southern and Northern California home. During her career in journalism — as a reporter and editor at daily newspapers – she won awards for producing investigative series.
Her mystery Edited for Death, called “Riveting and much recommended” by the Midwest Book Review and a Memorable Book for 2011 on DorothyL, is available in paperback at Amazon and B&N.
Her paranormal romance series, SNAP: The Kandesky Vampire Chronicles, is available in ebook format at Amazon. The first book, SNAP: The World Unfolds, received a 4-star rating from the Paranormal Romance Guild. The second book, SNAP: New Talent, also received 4 stars from PRG. The third book of the Chronicles, Plague: A Love Story, was published in June 2012, the fourth, Danube: A Tale of Murder will be available in September 2012 and SNAP: Love for Money is scheduled to be released in December 2012.

This book is free on these days only – 08/31/2012 at midnight PST until 11:59 pm on 08/31/2012. If the dates are the same that means the book is free one day only.
THE ALADDIN NETWORK is a spy thriller about a plot to destroy the commercial and industrial system of the United States. Who?s behind it? Is it Osama Bin Laden, Al-Qaeda, the Taliban, Hamas, Hezbollah, or even Saddam’s ghost?? No, it’s our old nemesis, Libya’s Colonel Qaddafi, who along with former East German secret policemen and terrorists and disgruntled, corrupt Mexican officials, team up to sabotage the U.S. economy. By using sophisticated encryption and communication techniques, they hit our Achilles heel and the devastation begins.

A severely autistic child with no past, no present and no real future…

An evil older than time itself…

When the boy Lucian is thrown into Aaron’s life with nowhere else to go all hell breaks loose and Aaron confronts things he never actually imagined could really exist in an effort to save one small, tortured child.

My pen name is RJ Palmer but most people know me by Rachel. I’m a 32 year old (gasp, the cardinal sin…I disclosed my age!) married mother of so freakin’ many children that the first day of school is like a holiday in and of itself. Not that any other parent can’t relate to that sentiment, at least in part. If you have kids you understand where I’m coming from. It’s that wonderful day when you get to kick ‘em out the door after they’ve been home all summer and they don’t come back for about eight hours.

I’ve written two novels, one of which is FREE on Amazon in celebration of my blog’s birthday, as if I hadn’t said that enough. (Pssst! Hey everybody…It’s “Sins of the Father” in case you missed that part…) And the other is “Birthright” my debut novel which needs a little polish and some less amateur cover art. I did it all by myself which explains the amateur part. Pay attention to “Sins of the Father”. I like it better right now. Truth be told, it’s my favorite brainchild at the moment.

If you want to get to know me better please feel free to visit my blog at http://rjpalmer.blogspot.com/ or you could take the easy route and Google the title, “Confessions of a Wingnut and Science Fiction Junkie.” Though after that little display directly above, I wouldn’t blame you if you didn’t, or did…Either way is fine. Get to know my books though; they’re cooler than I am.

Madame Franchot is setting Victorian London on its ear with her uncanny fortune-telling abilities. Murchison and Leeds are hired to investigate the woman who’s past is murky, and in doing so, they may have inadvertently created a much darker future in the next century…

From “Enter The Phenomenologists,” by Gil C. Schmidt, the adventures of Murchison and Leeds blend science fiction, mystery and action in what one critic called “a Victorian X-Files.” Volume One presents seven thrilling stories, each of them a challenging adventure that pushes Murchison and Leeds far into the unknown.

When I wasn’t tearing around the neighborhood crashing into things (trees can be tricky) or acting like each baseball game (or any game, for that matter) was a “winner take all” epic, I was reading. Plenty of short stories, particularly those in “Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine” and “Boy’s Life.” Also comic books, tons and tons of comic books, along with science fiction by the truckloads. And anything else I could find, from “Newsweek” and “Reader’s Digest” to “Highlights” and the encyclopedia.

Like most avid readers, I wanted to read more than the story in front of me: I wanted to read MY story, the way I would write it. Started in the 7th grade and received praise, which was nice, but I knew I needed to do better.

Kept writing, pages and pages that were stored in boxes, page that were taken out every few months and after re-reading to see if I’d made progress, stored again, out of sight. Started submitting and got rejected, but sold three stories on my first day of acceptance into professionalism and that kept me on track.

Now I write daily, though most of it is not fiction. Still, it is writing, and when I get the chance–or more precisely, when I make the chance–to write fiction, I revert to the boy on the couch, lost in a story. I think that most writers truly love that feeling, of being “in” the story, lost but intrigued by what comes next.

I’m currently working on a new fantasy series, the second book of The Phenomenologists and a dystopian serial novel. Hopefully most of that will see the light of day (or the backlight of a ereader) in 2012.

You can lock your windows and your doors, but you cannot lock your mind from The Hunter Inside.

Paul Wayans and Bill Arnold have something in common. They are being stalked by a vicious killer.

Sandy Myers, rushing from home with her 7 year-old twins in tow, grabs a letter from the mailbox. It is addressed to Sandy Carson. Her maiden name. Contained within the plain manila envelope is a photograph. A photograph of a corpse.

The past has caught up with them, and now their lives are in jeopardy. A monster more fearsome than any the world has ever seen is hunting them, bringing with it echoes from the past and threatening the future of civilisation.

Should they run, or should they stand and fight?

FBI Special Agent Sam O’Neill will fight desperately to solve a case that he could not solve ten years before. Then, he had no clues as to the identity of the vicious killer. This time, it’s different.

But can he find them before it’s too late? And if he does not, will ANYONE survive?

The Hunter Inside is a psychological thriller with a twist. It is a page-turning roller-coaster of a novel that you won’t be able to put down until all of its secrets, twists and turns have been revealed. Packed full of gruesome murders, fear and suspense, it harbors a monster so fearsome it will give you nightmares.

Shimasou is here – and no-one is safe.

David McGowan is 34 years old and from Liverpool in the United Kingdom. He holds a degree in English language and literature, and spins tales of suspense with a twist. He rates as his biggest influences Stephen King, Dean Koontz and Peter Straub.

“I’d been sitting here wishing on a star, the moon, genies, birthday cakes, wishing wells, whatever I could think of that would make what just happened not be true. I’d never had a wish granted in my life. That was the stuff kids believed in. I wasn’t a kid anymore…”

Plain. Invisible. Ugly. Fat.

When nineteen year old Evelyn Barns wakes up two hundred and forty-three pounds lighter, her heart’s desire suddenly becomes her curse.

“Your fate is in your hands,” were the witch’s words, but when every bad deed counts, there’s not much she can do to stop the weight from packing back on, even with coke as her new best friend. It was all moving too fast, her pain only masked by a high that was becoming harder to keep. A new life and social status was all she ever wanted but what she finds leaves her drowning in a beautiful nightmare that only gets worse.

Patria L. Dunn (Patria Dunn-Rowe) hails from the small town of Louisa Virginia. Born in 1981, a true child of the 80’s; her interest range from classic to unimaginable. While The Gifts Trilogy is her first work, it certainly isn’t her last. A young woman with many talents and many titles such as: Pianist, Author, & most importantly Mother, if you ask about her accomplishments she will tell you: “The best is yet to come.”

Auggie Spinoza is a ten-year-old boy with a secret: he is a special agent who can travel through time. Now, he finds himself locked in a desperate battle against evil forces trying to change the course of history. To defeat them, Auggie must pursue a dangerous quest to find a set of mysterious clues hidden in the past.

With the help of a clever new friend and advice from a cast of famous characters with names like Jefferson, Darwin, and Plato, Auggie fights to fulfill his destiny and save his world from ruin. Along the way, he learns the importance of thinking clearly and shows the awesome power of a code-breaking, book-loving, time-traveling ten-year-old with a talent for being in the right place at the right time (and doing the right thing).

Steven Stickler is no rocket scientist. He will never be confused with a professional athlete. He is not (despite widespread rumors) the actor who played Cousin Oliver in The Brady Bunch, nor was he a guest drummer for the Beatles during a brief period in the mid-1960s.

He is something completely different: a writer. He began writing when he was five years of age and, perhaps due to an oversight by those in positions of authority, was never told to stop. He lives in the great Pacific Northwest of the United States, where he enjoys exploring the outdoors with his family and, of course, reading at least one book by Dr. Seuss every year.

These are all titles of the villanious Valdimir, a once proud and just knight of Arathon that had once believed in protecting the innocent and punishing the wicked.

The first and only barbarian that ever became a knight, Valdimir had gained both fame and respect. All that changed when tragedy struck his life and he began to question his beliefs as a knight and began to turn towards the Death Gods for guidance…most notably, the God of Death himself, becoming his most devoted follower in life.

Having been killed over 300 years ago during the events of the novel The Curse of Silver Blood, Valdimir is brought back to life as a death knight, once again under the service of the dreaded Death God.

Valdimir’s long absence from a hugely different world then when he had once lived begins to cause him to question his faith once again, even in death.

In this gripping and emotional story, Valdimir’s life as a knight to the God of Justice is fully described, as well as how he was raised from death itself to once again serve the will of Morith. From his joining the knighthood, all the way up to his grief stricken turn to the Death Gods, to the present time in Arator where Valdimir awakens, Black Blooded Heart is a dark and moving tale of a man who’s soul has been tainted through life’s brutal circumstances.

Will Valdimir once again bow down before Morith, or will he take his own path…forging his own destiny in a new world that still freshly remembers the atrocities and horrors he acted on in his former life?

City of Angeles is the second book in the trilogy Memoirs of Marlayna Glynn Brown.

Continuing her remarkable journey in staccato prose, author Marlayna Glynn Brown reveals the underside of a life lived in 1980s Los Angeles, picking up from the moment in which Overlay ends.

This searingly written, often bizarre story of her teens and twenties reveals the author’s flight from the glitz of Las Vegas to the formidable world of self re-invention among the angels and demons populating 1980s Los Angeles. The author unflinchingly begets a self from the unlikeliest beginnings, and now delivers a sequel illustrating both heaven and hell on her continuing flight for self discovery.

Marlayna Glynn Brown is an author and award winning photographer. She is also a screenwriter, actress, producer, poet, yogi and photographer. She was born and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada and bases many of my unusual characters and unexpected story lines on true events.

Her first memoir, Overlay – A Tale of One Girl’s Life in 1970s Las Vegas, was published in March 2012 and is available in print and Kindle format. City of Angeles, the next sequel to Overlay, was published July 2012. Her 2009 short film, People That do Something, is based upon a chapter from Overlay and can be viewed at www.marlaynaglynnbrown.com.

From the bestselling author of TRIAL JUNKIES comes the ITW Thriller Award Nominee for Best Novel

When assistant district attorney Beth Crawford’s sister Jen invites her on a weekend cruise to Baja California, Beth is looking forward to a few days of much needed down time. But the fun in the sun doesn’t last long when Beth meets a mysterious couple on board and Jen disappears without a trace on the streets of Playa del Sol.

Now Beth must travel through Mexico’s violent underbelly–a stranger in a strange land–while searching desperately for her missing sister. And the only one who can help her is Nick Vargas, a disgraced newspaper reporter on the trail of a dangerous and deadly cult that has big plans for the upcoming celebration of El Dia de los Muertos–The Day of the Dead.

Robert Gregory Browne began his career by selling a two-part mystery story, NOTHING BUT THE COLD WIND, to EasyRiders magazine. After more than a decade as a screenwriter, Browne shifted his focus to his first love, novels, and wrote KISS HER GOODBYE, which recently served as the basis for a CBS Television series pilot, starring Dylan Walsh and Terry Kinney.

Rob’s subsequent books are the thrillers TRIAL JUNKIES, WHISPER IN THE DARK, KILL HER AGAIN, DOWN AMONG THE DEAD MEN and THE PARADISE PROPHECY (as Robert Browne).